We measure the effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment. We exploit the variation induced by the decision …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the labor market implications of unemployment …, and a rise in unemployment. …

We examine a system of Unemployment Insurance Saving Accounts (UISAs) as an alternative to the traditional unemployment … insurance system. Individuals are required to save up to 4 percent of wages in special accounts and to draw unemployment … compensation from these accounts instead of taking state unemployment insurance benefits. If the accounts are exhausted, the …

We examine the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) experience rating on layoffs using high quality firm and …

control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not; (ii) more positive on future wellbeing than on current well … positive in MSAs within states with more generous unemployment insurance policies. …

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment …

We study how the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with … moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is relatively low. By contrast, our evidence suggests … standard deviation increase in the unemployment rate leads to a roughly 14 to 27 percentage point increase in the welfare …

candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …, and between individuals with differing unemployment durations. I then use these hazards to explore a variety of …